Beware of high priority boinc units in Team Discovery http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20495501 en Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:36:36 EDT Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:36:36 EDT Re: Beware of high priority boinc units http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20500277 Owlbet : Dang, we must all think alike and all at the same time. I hadn't seen this thread and I don't check BOINC all that much because, quite frankly, it just works.

Bored, I wanted to look at what BOINC was doing and lo and behold, I have the rice work units happily crunching away.

I unknowingly crunched Dengue work units until I discovered them in my cache some time ago.

I've once again changed my default profile to remove the Rice preferences.

I'm all for nutritious rice, I just do it differently.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20500277 Sun, 18 May 2008 00:49:28 EDT Re: Beware of high priority boinc units http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20499508 Ascent : I am not sure it will help, My settings were to allow work from other projects if Help conquer cancer was out of work. I changed that to a NO! Hopefully that will stop this from happening in the future.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20499508 Sat, 17 May 2008 20:53:36 EDT Re: Beware of high priority boinc units http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20499505 Ray422 : More explanation...

A quoted portion from this link-
»www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forum···ad=20203
...of what was said by---Sekerob Community Advisor on 5/9/08.
"Generally BOINC tries to complete work 24 hours before due date, so I presume this was rush/repair work that with a short deadline."

I only keep my cache set at 1.5 days, so....
--Those 2 units must have been "rush/repair" since the due date was 7-8 days earlier than the others.
--Since this happened on the 16th, I suppose the 24 hour earlier completion date caused a two-day early high-priority trigger.
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I don't like them automatically adding a project to my profile at all.
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said by grobinette See Profile :

Hmm, seeing this made me look at mine and I noticed a bunch of nutritious rice for the world WU's stuck in there.

They must have added a new program and thrown them in to the que because I didn't set my profile to download them.
Happened to me too. I had to go to my WCG profile and uncheck the rice project. It got added by default.

More here: »New Task (Rice)
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20499324 Sat, 17 May 2008 20:03:13 EDT Re: Beware of high priority boinc units http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20499308 grobinette : Hmm, seeing this made me look at mine and I noticed a bunch of nutritious rice for the world WU's stuck in there.

They must have added a new program and thrown them in to the que because I didn't set my profile to download them.
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Discovery]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20498683 Sat, 17 May 2008 16:52:06 EDT Re: Beware of high priority boinc units http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20498675 La Luna :
said by lilhurricane See Profile :

Recently added ;)

»Team Discovery WCG BOINC FAQ »How Do I Increase My Cache?
Thanks! I set it for 2 days, now I have four more tasks ready to start! :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20498675 Sat, 17 May 2008 16:48:22 EDT Re: Beware of high priority boinc units http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20498556 lilhurricane : Recently added ;)

»Team Discovery WCG BOINC FAQ »How Do I Increase My Cache?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20498556 Sat, 17 May 2008 16:17:35 EDT Re: Beware of high priority boinc units http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20498528 La Luna : How do you get so many tasks "ready to start" like that? I only ever have two, one running, one waiting! ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20498528 Sat, 17 May 2008 16:09:59 EDT Re: Beware of high priority boinc units http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20495539 Ray422 : Never had a "high priority" before. I suppose because I've never had the cache over one day before. Sure was a costly lesson.

Thanks lil for the explanation :)

EDIT: and I can guarantee that these strange things will always happen at the precise time when I am making computer changes.
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Team Discovery and Project Hope]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20495539 Fri, 16 May 2008 20:48:08 EDT Re: Beware of high priority boinc units http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20495504 lilhurricane : Goes by expiration date *I believe..

..exactly because of what you said (increasing cache)

If you click on the Progress bar in the top tab..it will organize it all for you]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20495504 Fri, 16 May 2008 20:39:37 EDT Beware of high priority boinc units http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20495501 Ray422 : I was making some BIOS changes today. While reviewing the boinc screen I noticed that one of my cores (now 2 cores) wasn't running, or so I thought. One unit (not shown now) was reading "WAITING TO RUN" but would not run.

First, I thought it was the program. I restarted, changed settings, aborted a unit,restarted, etc,etc. Then I figured it was the horror of a CORE FAILURE. This is an undue annoyance costing both my time and valuable crunch time.

For those who have recently increased their cache due to the recent boinc outage....You may suddenly think one or more cores have failed. Be advised that your cores will suddenly skip below your visable screen area and start a "high priority unit".

I have not tried to check and have no idea what this is all about?
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